AMoCA Collection | Untitled (car hood), 36” x 36,” 2020, archival pigment print — AMoCA Collection | Untitled (car hood) 2020, archival pigment print, 36” x 36,”

AMoCA Collection | Untitled (forest fire), 22” x 22,” 2020, archival pigment print — AMoCA Collection | Untitled (forest fire) 2020, archival pigment print, 22” x 22,”

RAIR | 2019-20

Tonee Harbert | Portland, ME

Tonee Harbert is a photographer from Portland, Maine. His documentary and fine-art photographs have been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and others. He has received grants from Nikon, the Maine Arts Commission, and the Maine Community Foundation, and has been awarded a New England Emmy award for video work. Harbert received a degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University in 1986.

In 1998 Harbert completed a photographic/sculptural installation about the rural, rustic life of a Maine hermit. This work was published as a book Elmer Walker: Hermit to Herowhich was co-authored with writer Carolyn Chute, and the exhibition was featured on CBS Sunday Morning.

www.toneeharbert.com

My current work considers humans’ interaction with the landscape and the way we manipulate it to our own use. Any purpose we impose on the landscape leaves a mark which may be overt, or faintly shows a past narrative. These signs/signals inhabit our everyday world, where they can sometimes take on the surreal quality of a dream. I use a plastic camera to capture/portray scenes from this world which resonate with my own interpretation and experience of moving through it. This work is not an exposé on humans’ misuse of the landscape, but more a reflection on our environment and our relationship to it.

In the words of late photographer, curator, writer and educator Nathan Lyons: “Photography is, when used with its regard for inherent directness, a unique and exacting means of isolating inner realities found in correspondence with the physical world.”

Roswell Museum and Art Center

Rair exhibition • Tonee Harbert "Through the Static and Distance" • March 21 - September 27, 2020

A virtual tour of Tonee Harbert's RAiR Exhibition, "Through the Static and Distance" at the Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, New Mexico. Roswell Artist-in-Residence Exhibition March 21 - September 27, 2020 Roswell Museum and Art Center Marshall and Winston Gallery By appointment only, September 9-27, Wednesday-Friday afternoons at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. There is a 5-person group maximum, call 575-624-6744 for more information. Tonee Harbert will give a talk about his work in a LIVE Zoom broadcast at 8 p.m., Saturday, August 22. More information coming soon! Tonee Harbert’s photography considers human interaction with the landscape. Any purpose people impose on the land leaves a mark which may be overt, or may indicate a past narrative. These signs/ signals inhabit our everyday world, where collectively they can take on the qualities of a dream or myth. This developing work from New Mexico invokes history and impermanence through looking at what remains from scenarios that once held utility or meaning but now hold mystery for the photographer. Harbert uses a 1960’s plastic “Diana” film camera, featuring a lo-fi plastic lens to capture scenes which resonate with his own interpretation of, and experience of moving through the world. Video: Created by Tonee Harbert To learn more about the artist visit www.toneeharbert.com Song: Peanut Shells Artist: Chad Crouch Licensed to YouTube by [Merlin] Redeye Distribution (on behalf of Sound of Picture); ASCAP

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